BEST ALBUM OF 1992 POLL (Ends 11th May)

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...With A Twist.
This only includes albums that made Raw & Kerrang's top albums lists.

The 1st 25 are from Kerrang and the remainder are from the RAW list that did not make it into the Kerrang List.
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html#1992
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/raw.htm

May do a separate NME & MM poll.

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Sugar - Copper Blue	18
Faith No More - Angel Dust	12
Alice In Chains - Dirt	9
Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun	9
Ministry - Psalm 69: The Way To Succeed And The Way To Suck Eggs	8
Helmet - Meantime	7
L7 - Bricks Are Heavy	6
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion	5
Various - Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	2
Monster Magnet - Spine Of God	2
Warrior Soul - Salutations From The Ghetto Nation	2
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power	2
Pearl Jam - Ten	2
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion	2
Def Leppard - Adrenalize	1
Extreme - III Sides To Every Story	1
Body Count - Body Count	1
Baby Animals - Baby Animals	1
Gruntruck - Push	1
Marillion - A Singles Collection	1
Love/Hate - Wasted In America	1
Drivin' N' Cryin' - Fly Me Courageous	1
Megadeth - Countdown To Extinction	1
Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds - Izzy Stradlin And The Ju Ju Hounds	0
Stone Temple Pilots - Core	0
Tool - Opiate	0
Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union	0
Trouble - Manic Frustration	0
Mother Love Bone - Mother Love Bone	0

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'm torn between Kyuss/Sugar/Helmet/Screaming Trees/Monster Magnet/Faith No More/Alice In Chains

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

Warrior Soul album was great too. 1992 was a great year for rock music for sure.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, this is like looking into an ugly part of my musical past. I hate just about all of these now except for the Izzy Stradlin, Sugar and L7 albums (and out of those, I really only still listen to the Sugar album).

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:45 (eighteen years ago)

Do you like Kyuss?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, god, what a shitty list. Thanks for reminding me why hated rock music so much in the early '90s.

I voted for Love/Hate.

― xhuxk, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I've heard any of these.

― Rockist Scientist, Saturday, 5 May 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

Chuck and I disagree as usual!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

Marillion seem to be the odd one out here.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

eeeew. I voted anyway. This was after the whole grunge-as-major label overproduced, overmarketed, hell over-everythinged period of ersatz excess took over the business and apparently the critics weren't nearly as revolted by it as I was. Now I can't remember who I voted for but Skin Yard, L7, Soul Asylum and Helmet used to be pretty cool bands. Gruntruck was a credible enough project (and I bet i voted for that) but it was something of a disappointment to those of us who were waiting for it (well, me actually is what i mean).

That actually isn't the worst crappy Soul Asylum album ever. I probably should have picked that.

― Saxby D. Elder, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

Despite it being the grunge years Extreme still managed to get big in that time. Fuck knows why though!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

I can't find any Hit Parader lists from that time. Maybe of course they didn't have any, but if they did I'm sure most of that stuff wouldn't be in it.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

Here's a complete list of Kerrang's albums of the year from the beginning in 1982.
http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/kerrang.html#1982

What do you reckon was the best year?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 00:31 (eighteen years ago)

Singles was the soundtrack for one bad-ass summer, once you re-taped it without the Paul Westerburg songs. What a shitty movie though.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:27 (eighteen years ago)

I remember that Drivin' and Cryin' album being anomalously crunchy...good times. I kinda miss Athens now.

― Morley Timmons, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

I liked one of those Paul Westerburg songs a lot actually.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

"Waiting for Somebody?" I enjoyed that one

― Morley Timmons, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

I should dig that cd out actually.

I remember that Drivin' and Cryin' album being anomalously crunchy...good times.

I don't think I have ever heard them.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my god, this list makes me vomit. I wish more had been done to warn me in the thread title as to what would await.

― Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

Sugar is the only thing decent there.

― Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

D and C (oh dear) were kinda run-of-the-mill janglies before they got a new bass player and were suddenly Skynyrd. It came out of nowhere! But I still liked that album lots.

― Morley Timmons, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

Why didn't you say "Kerrang" in the thread title? Hello, there were far better album releases from 1992.

― Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, look. Never mind. I don't like these polls so far anyway where's albums from a single year. I just don't like them. Sorry. I'll leave you all to have your fun.

― Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

There's obviously some great material missing from this list, but of those cited, I'd go with Copper Blue by ye olde Sugar.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 6 May 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

For whatever it's worth (and because those NME lists from this era are even worse), I don't hate Drivin N Cryin, Trouble, Monster Magnet, or Kyuss.

But grunge was still the worst thing ever to happen to hard rock, and this list really demonstrates why.

― xhuxk, Sunday, 6 May 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

I liked one of those Paul Westerburg songs a lot actually.

They didn't fit in with the ass-kicking rock 'n' roll that comprised the rest of the album though. I listened to my fair share of jangly pop music around this time too, but Paul Westerberg had no business being sandwiched between Mudhoney and Jimi Hendrix. If you took those songs out, the continuity of the album worked really well.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 6 May 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

The 1991 poll.
http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57663#unread

― The Twisted Pollstarter, Sunday, 6 May 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

Why didn't you say "Kerrang" in the thread title? Hello, there were far better album releases from 1992.

The NME 1992 poll thread doesn't bear that out according to a lot of people posting there. (chuck especially)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 02:52 (eighteen years ago)

Not a good list, to say the least. Still, I voted for sentimental old favorites L7. Not that I've actually heard the record in the past 15 years or so, but...

― JN$OT, Sunday, 6 May 2007 03:29 (eighteen years ago)

What RAWK albums from 1992 were people listening to then?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

I liked one of those Paul Westerburg songs a lot actually.

But the 'nahh-na-na-na' stuff seems out of place on an album that includes tracks like 'Birth Ritual', or that AIC one with the good bassline.

― MacDara, Sunday, 6 May 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

"Would".

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Most of the grunge kids in my sixth-form college liked a bit of Extreme!

― braveclub, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Angel Dust is momentous, people! A bit surprisingly, however, I don't think I know enough of these albums to vote.

― Sundar, Sunday, 6 May 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Damn kids! ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

terrible fucking list

I voted Copper Blue -- the only album on here that I own, thankfully

― stephen, Sunday, 6 May 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

How can you say Faith No More or Kyuss are terrible? Nevermind Screaming Trees or Monster Magnet!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

It was between Dirt and Copper Blue, and in the end I chose the latter.

― Duane Barry, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

gah wtf is this list i am with bimble you should WARN PEOPLE about this shit

ugh

― lex pretend, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

But if you don't know these bands how can you go "ugh"?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

its a spiritual thing.

Helmet - Meantime

this is the only rock album i listen to with any regularity!

― ☪, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

III Sides to Every Story is a lost classic hair-metal album. I went with that over the first Pearl Jam album.

― ablaeser, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Meantime is an album I will always return to.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

I've got 7 of these albums on tape or CD -- even the Megadeth one ("Hello me - meet the real me!"). It's amazing how little I play them now (Copper Blue excepted). I eve tried to get rid of Vulgar Display of Power as I got a headache from that fucking Terry Date production every time I heard it.

― MacDara, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

I have 17 of them haha.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Tough call, but I went with Pantera.

― unperson, Sunday, 6 May 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

I heard a good 7" single from Helmet once, but I think it was well before the album represented here. I could be wrong.

― Bimble, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

I like lots of the CD is on this list! Went with Angel Dust, though. Bit of a no-brainer, really.

― Jeff Treppel, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

At last, someone who owns as much of that list as I do!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

I have 17 of them haha.

The only reason I don't have more is that I didn't start buying CDs till 1994. In '91 I was probably listening to Technotronic or some shite, wasn't really into music.

― MacDara, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping 28 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Hey Emily, I'm listening to your show. Play me some Skid Row!

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

dammit, the one day i leave "slave to the grind" at home...

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Hurrah!!! It's great innit?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

Not very polite, making fun of your listeners when they give an honest request. Fine. I'll walk the 5 feet to my CD rack and put on the damn thing myself.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, that CD is on the shelf in the other room. So I have to walk 15 feet into my living room to get it. Thanks a lot.

― Jeff Treppel, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

if you email me a song, i'll play it next week. maybe.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

I think he's in the huff with you now. Btw where can I hear your radio show?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

I was outside, enjoying the beautiful day. Not all of us sit inside all day and start polls on ILM. =p

Seriously, though, I'm just kidding around. Although I have been trying to find a song on the CD that Ms. Burnham wouldn't reject out of hand.

― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

The cover of Psycho Therapy? ;)

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

I was thinking "Get the Fuck Out," personally.

― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

moose's 'xyz' was probably album of the year.

It's really good, but not their best release as it falters in the middle--esp. that song with what's-her-bucket from the cranberries that virgin forced them to do. The 3 Hut eps and Honey Bee: that's the gold.

― Bill in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

You know what? In hindsight, I think I like the first Skid Row CD better. Lots more hooks.

― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:26 (eighteen years ago)

First Skid Row album is WAY better than that ugly-assed second one. Always was. Not even close. (What were they trying to do, be a "grunge" band? Yuck.)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oops, I think I'm talking about that Skid Row album on the wrong thread. Too many poll threads, getting me confused. At any rate, I don't think they were trying to be grunge. I think they were trying to be a late 80s thrash band next with, to paraphrase you (can't find the exact quote right now), funkless funk. Mixed results, to be sure. I like: "Monkey Business," "Slave to the Grind," "The Threat," and "Riot Act."

― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:43 (eighteen years ago)

What a horrendous year! I voted Helmet because it was the only thing I could imagine putting on right now and enjoying at all, even though I haven't felt the urge to listen to it in the last, oh, ten years or so. I guess the AIC and STP albums are tolerable enough.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

... Am I the only one who likes the majority of the records on here?

― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 03:00 (eighteen years ago)

i don't have a problem with skid row at all! i never did own any of their albums, but hey, some of the first albums i bought with my own money were poison and slaughter and whitesnake.

my show is called life on mars, and it's on WMEB 91.9 FM, a small but awesome college/community station in eastern maine. you can listen at www.wmeb.umaine.edu, the streaming sometimes goes down but it usually works. i'm on from 4 to 6 p.m. EST on tuesdays. i play lots of everything.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, I'll listen out next week then!
and No Jeff, I have 17 of them!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

Ministry 'cos it doesn't just rock.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

It rocks hard though!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 00:35 (eighteen years ago)

Last day to vote

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 13:19 (eighteen years ago)

Couple of hours voting left. So get voting.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I never really thought much of Helmet's other albums, but Meantime is really excellent and it is a killer sounding record.

― earlnash, Thursday, 10 May 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

I can actually live with these results. Never heard Sugar, but everything else pretty much looks about right (including the zero votes for Tool).

― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe Ned didn't vote? Sugar probably got the non-kerrang readers vote but it's a fabulous record. I'm glad people voted for Screaming Trees.
Shame the Trouble album got no votes. That's a cracker.

I wonder who voted for the Def leppard hehe

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, Megadeth should have gotten way more votes than that. Come on, people! That's a great record! If it wasn't for Angel Dust being in my top 10 records of all time, I probably would have voted for that one.

― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

I liked the Megadeth at the time but i wonder how it will stand up now. His voice seemed less annoying on that one. Wonder if I'd still think that.

Do you think it was a better album than Metallica's Black Album?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

I like Megadeth better than Metallica, but the Black album wins out on sheer song quality. My favorite Megadeth album is actually So Far, so Good... so What? I realize that's an odd one, but it rips all the way through. All killer, no filler! Countdown has some definite filler, although the high points (the first five songs, "Countdown to Extinction") rank up there with their best.

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 11 May 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

Who did you like best out of The Big Four?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

I'm genuinely surprised people voted for Sugar, for me this was the kind of music people would look back on and think, "my god, why did i listen to that shite?" i mean the guy sings like a buffalo giving birth ffs, not a good sound

― braveclub, Friday, 11 May 2007 00:56 (eighteen years ago)

ya rly. maybe because there's a song on there that sounds like a loveless outtake?

― Steve Shasta, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

Or because it is a really good album?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

Big Four being Megadeth Metallica Slayer Anthrax? Megadeth, no question.

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, what was your favourite of The Big Four Of Thrash Metal?

Which is one poll Geir will never do!

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

I can even rank them, from favorite to least (although I like them all to some degree):

Megadeth
Anthrax
Metallica
Slayer

Metallica and Anthrax can switch depending on whether or not Scott Ian or Lars is being the bigger douche bag that day. (Scott Ian was very rude to me when I met him)

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

i think the beaster EP was much better than that record IMOrly

― Steve Shasta, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

Beaster was even better, yes.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

'JC Auto' is at the top of my pile of sugar.

― SeekAltRoute, Friday, 11 May 2007 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

Same here. Live versions are fantastic too.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 08:34 (eighteen years ago)

Have you heard the live version on the Tilted 7"?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Friday, 11 May 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Who were Baby Animals?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Sunday, 13 May 2007 00:54 (eighteen years ago)

baby animals were a terrible hard rock band from australia. female frontwoman

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

there are some excellent records on that list, incidentally

i'm thinking specifically fnm, aic, kyuss, screaming trees, helmet, megadeth, trouble

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

wow ilm sux

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

baby animals were a terrible hard rock band from australia. female frontwoman

Don't remember hearing them at all.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 03:27 (eighteen years ago)

x-Post

YOU SUCK

― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

So actually I really enjoy Faith No More and I would have absolutely no problem running into them, Helmet or Alice in Chains in a dark, dead-end thread somewhere. Why so much aloof hate for such good music? O well.

― humansuit, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 05:10 (eighteen years ago)

wtf

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 08:51 (eighteen years ago)

There's about 13 albums I still listen to from time to time on that list. Esp Kyuss , Helmet and Screaming Trees.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

Ahh memories of 1992

― Herman G. Neuname, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 18:56 (seventeen years ago)

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